Nest programmes offer a full-time dual-language environment in which your child will use both English and Mandarin daily to learn, socialise, and interact with their environment.
features of nest's dual language immersion:
Native speakers & natural language fluency
Our immersion classrooms feature Guides who are not only Montessori-trained, but are also native Mandarin speakers.
This constant exposure to native Mandarin allows children to learn the language with a native accent and natural intonation.
Dual-language literacy
Your child will always have one fluent English-speaking
guide and one fluent Mandarin-speaking guide in his classroom and be surrounded
by learning materials in both languages.
In addition to teaching the skills to
cultivate reading and writing in both languages, we use both English and
Mandarin as living languages, so your child can access the entirety of our curriculum
in either language.
Lifelong executive functioning & social-emotional benefits
When children learn a second language, they have to regularly make “mental switches” to go back and forth between both language. This increases a child’s cognitive flexibility—their ability to be nimble, look at problems from new angles, and not get bogged down by setbacks.
In addition to advanced executive functioning, bilingual children also show a head start in empathy and other social-emotional skills.
at nest preschool, we believe every child is tremendously capable.
But what’s even better, the children believe it too.
Every child at Nest Preschool knows they can accomplish real things and engage in real learning. Not because someone tells them so, but because they choose it, experience it, and succeed at it every single day.